BBC Weather forecaster Susan Powell delivered some bad news for families across the UK who are planning on travelling to holiday destinations around the Mediterranean Sea with bad weather looming for half-term.

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“Let me show you what has been happening though. You may have heard over the last few days we have had the remnants of Hurricane Lessie has gone piling across Portugal, Spain, it’s flooded out the south of France. That got followed by a low that had a bit of Hurricane Michael.

“Just look at the next 24 to 48 hours across the western side of the Med. The Balearics are under there somewhere, Ibiza, Mallorca, Menorca and Sardinia, Corsica. Everything is just getting plastered with rain.

“Even on into the end of this week, look further north, closer to home, and for once stay put and you are probably onto a winner.”

She added: “Think high-pressure building, it looks like it is going to hold fairly steady into next week.

We are probably going to get actually comapartaitivly better weather in the UK than many of the favoured holiday resorts

BBC Weather forecaster Susan Powell

“We are probably going to get actually comparatively better weather in the UK than many of the favoured holiday resorts around the Med.

“Even the Canary’s haven’t been doing too well because they have been getting some of these storms that have come in from the Atlantic and they are normally a bit of a banker for a holiday at this time of the year, with some sunshine.

“But, even there it is a bit mixed so stay close to home we are not missing out.”

France, Spain and Portugal have all battled dangerous flash flooding this money with torrential rains have killed at least 13 people in south-western France.

BBC weather forecast: Europe set for unsettled weather (Image: BBC)

BBC Weather forecast Stav Danaos said: “While much of Europe enjoys fine dry warm stilted weather for the next few days it is going to be a very unsettled picture across the central and western Mediterranean.

“We could see some flooding issues breaking out in parts of Italy, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, southern France and again into the Balearics.

“For the time being, it is largely dry across the eastern Mediterranean, a few showers and thunderstorms around but things will turn more unsettled here towards the end of the week and the weekend.”